Another argument is that tape is cheaper. As one contributor put it: "Depending on the size of the environment and the change rate, the cost of spinning disk can quickly exceed that of physical tape.

So we had a purely physical server environment and were trying (note the word 'trying') to use Acronis Backup and Recovery, which was terrible. Fast forward a couple months and we are now looking at a ...

What type of backup strategy do you guys use by means of D2D and D2T? I just got my hands on a Dell D2D appliance with 30TB of disk and am thinking about using this for my nightly backups and then ...

While technologies exist to vastly improve backup and recovery processes, many enterprises have delayed modernizing their backup infrastructure. Now a confluence of factors – greater storage demands, ...

The past few weeks alone also have seen new virtual tape library (VTL) products from Marlborough, Mass.-based Sepaton; Palo Alto, Calif.-based Data Domain; Fremont, Calif.-based 3PAR; and Melville, ...

When the time came for Jeff Machols to find a way to trim and better control CitiStreet LLC’s data center costs while simultaneously improving the performance and speed of backup operations, he ...

The recent well-publicized backup tape losses at the likes of Bank of America and Ameritrade appear to be pushing some companies to consider alternative storage technologies such as virtual tape and ...

Network Appliance, Inc. is collaborating with backup application vendors to integrate their solutions with NetApp NearStore VTL Shadow Tape technology. The integration will significantly accelerate ...